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Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 8:09 AM

Houston Skyline -- 1913
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Houston Skyline -- 1920
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Houston Skyline -- 1940
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Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 8:14 AM

Rice Hotel

1881 - 1911
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1913 - 1925
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1925 - Present
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Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 8:15 AM

Looking down Montrose from Hermann Park

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Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 8:16 AM

Houston's First Shamrock

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Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 8:17 AM

Second National Bank Building

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Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 8:19 AM

The Neils Esperson Building was constructed in 1927. It was the tallest building in Houston for two years until the Gulf Building was constructed. .

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Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 8:20 AM

The Gulf Building, constructed in 1929, remained Houston's tallest building until well after World War II. Although its builder, Jesse Jones, was not in favor of sky scrapers--he favored a height limit of ten stories--he seemed determined for his building to be the tallest in the city. It remained so until after his death.

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Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 8:22 AM

Houston Ship Channel

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Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 3:09 PM

NICE! did you search these pics? cause I have seen some before on the search engines... but I like the other ones, thanks Space!
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Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 3:22 PM

This is great stuff, man!
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Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 9:53 PM

OK some more. Btw, the 1920 downtown postcard was taken from the location of today's City Hall. Quite a change.

Central Christian Church, Main St.
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Central Fire Station
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County Courthouse
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City Hall Annex, Market Square Louisiana Street side
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Carnegie Library, McKinney St.
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Downtown Synagogue
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Main Post Office, Franklin and Fannin
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Stewart Building, Fannin
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Medical Arts Building
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Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 10:02 PM

But wait, there's more!

A favorite around here, the West Building
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Fannin School
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Downtown High School
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St. Agnes Academy (now the site of Ventana Apartments)
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Lumberman's National Bank, Main St.
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South Texas National Bank, Main St.
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Houston Post Building, Texas at Milam
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Macatee Hotel, adjacent to Southern Pacific Station
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Milby Hotel, Texas at Travis
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Waddell Furniture, Fannin
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Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 10:33 PM

Great stuff, man! It is a huge shame that some of these beautiful buildings were torn down!
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Posted Wednesday, November 30, 2005 at 6:11 PM

View PostSpaceCity, on Tuesday, August 31st, 2004 @ 9:14am, said:

Rice Hotel

1881 - 1911
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1913 - 1925
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1925 - Present
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These postcards might be collector's items. Who knows? Someone out there might be willing to buy them off of E-Bay.
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Posted Friday, December 16, 2005 at 1:10 PM

View PostAshikaga, on Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 @ 7:11pm, said:

These postcards might be collector's items. Who knows? Someone out there might be willing to buy them off of E-Bay.


I was browsing through your forum and thought you might be interested in the following link:

http://memory.loc.go...anoramic_photo/

It takes you to the Library of Congress archives. Type "Houston" in the box in the upper left hand corner of the page, and the site will bring up a series of panoramic skyline photos from the turn of the century.

As for postcard views, I know of at least one site that trades in such things (www.cardcow.com). Try this link for historic Houston postcards:

http://www.cardcow.c...e.php?cat=65109

You can even read the notes on the backs of the cards and download favorite scenes as wallpaper.

Great stuff!!

This post has been edited by mike1: Friday, December 16, 2005 at 1:21 PM

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Posted Friday, December 16, 2005 at 1:11 PM

thanks for the link! they have nice size-ups, too
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Posted Monday, October 8, 2007 at 3:04 PM

View PostSubdude, on Tuesday, August 31st, 2004 @ 9:53pm, said:

OK some more. Btw, the 1920 downtown postcard was taken from the location of today's City Hall. Quite a change.

Central Christian Church, Main St.
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Central Fire Station
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County Courthouse
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City Hall Annex, Market Square Louisiana Street side
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Carnegie Library, McKinney St.
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Downtown Synagogue
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Main Post Office, Franklin and Fannin
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Stewart Building, Fannin
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Medical Arts Building
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These are good collector's items. The Jewish synagogue's onion-shaped domes make it look like that St. Basil's Church in Moscow, Russia. I assume that all of these buildings are gone. I wonder what is now occupying the spots of ground where they once stood?
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Posted Monday, October 8, 2007 at 3:19 PM

Even this topic is historic!

It seems that most historic Synagogue's here and in Galveston had some off the most uniques and intricuit detail ever seen. At least here in the US.

One day Houston will start giving each specific wrecking ball some sort of historical sygnificance just for being the one that "destroyed the beautiful structure that one stood". :wacko:

Don't be surprised if there is a historic Starbucks there now.
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Posted Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 10:36 AM

View PostVertigo58, on Monday, October 8th, 2007 @ 3:19pm, said:

Even this topic is historic!

It seems that most historic Synagogue's here and in Galveston had some off the most uniques and intricuit detail ever seen. At least here in the US.

One day Houston will start giving each specific wrecking ball some sort of historical sygnificance just for being the one that "destroyed the beautiful structure that one stood". :wacko:

Don't be surprised if there is a historic Starbucks there now.


That Sheraton Hotel that Subdude posted the photos of might be on the spot where one of these buildings once stood. Or maybe the Hyatt Regency.
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